The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-06
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Nsndala, Is IN The city ana VIII remain until
noon 10 day.
II. c. Rowe passenger conductor on the c..
II & L. was yesterday appointed yardmaster at
Hamilton, o.
George c. Green, of Buffalo, has been made
general counsel of the Lake Shore, vice Ashley
Pond, resigned.
T. NJ Hobart is appointed auditor of tie Bell
aire, GAINESVILLE & Cincinnati railway vice j.
NJ Miller, appointed general freight aud passen-
ger agent
Assistant General Passenger Agent Reinhart
OF the Lake Shore, has resigned to accept the
position of comptroller of the Richmond q Dan
vile system.
Jack Farley, passenger conductor on the c.,
H. d ID. main line, and one of the most popular
on the c.. FL & d system. transferred to
the c.. Fl. & j. division yesterday.
j. II. Owens, secretaryeof Manager Dewitt,
OF the Erie Express. has resigned to accept po-
stion as route agent with the b. & O. on the
Queen & Crescent. His headquarters will be Me-
fieian, Miss.
The resiF.- ,ion Of Harry e. Watcham. city
and theatre. passenger agent of the PeDnsyl-
vania Company at Chicago. has been handed in,
dating from Jan l. the company having decided
30 abolish that position.
j. r. Watson general passenger agent of the
Ftchburg railroad will hereafter have charge
of the ticket department also of that company,
and his Office will be removed to the Fitchburg
railroad passenger station. Boston.
With the coming in of the new year the Penn
sylvania Company seems TO have turned over
new leaf Their fast trains have been arriving
the last few days with a promptness which has
not been known for some weeks, il not months
NJ e. ingalls,, president of the c.. l.. St. l.. &
C.. has gone East to be absent several days His
Grip East is to look after the exchange of the
roads bonds from high to low-rate interest,
which he planned and is so successfully carrying
cut
The Chicago Inter Ocean: There is con-
siderable conjecture as to who will succeed
y. W. Snow as general passenger agent of the
CHICAGO IL Atlantic road 1t is understood that
che Erie road will name the successful aspirant
for the position.
f. j Whitney, of the Michigan Central hav-
Ing declined the position of auditor of the Wa
bash system, proffered him by Receiver Cooley,
the place has been rendered TO M. Trumbu
who has accepted. Mr. Trumbul was assistant
auditor on the old Wabash.
George E. Allen has been appointed district
passenger agent of the ST. Paul. Minneapolis &
Manitoba road with headquarters in Chicago.
The position is a new one. Mr.. Allen was
formerly city passenger agent Of the Erie road
at Buffalo, and comes here with good record.
The year 1856 was fatal in the ranks of
tho membership of the c., c.. c. & l. Mutual
Benefit Association during the wear there being
nineteen deaths in the mem bership. In no former
year have the assessments numbered more than
twelve, and the average is but nine, since the as
ISOLATION had so many members.
The reason assigned for the dissolution of the
San Francisco passenger pool is that the
Atlantic x Pacific denied the Southern Pacific
the right TO make rates to Chicago via New Or
leans. on the same basis the lines running via
Kansas City and Omaha. The Cleveland Leader
says this is the thirtieth time this association
has broken up.
j. II. Coeswell has been appointed agent of
the Nickel plate line at ST. Louis, in place of W.
r. Hill, resigned TO represent the Decline at
Louisville, Ky. Mr.. Coeswell was the first and
only agent in ST. Louis of the Hoosac Tunnel
line, aud to his efforts, in great measure, are
due the success of that line, which he represent
ed twelve years.
The Chicago 81 Alton Railroad Company an
nounces that hereafter tire earnings of the road
will be published monthly, instead of weekly, as
-laa~b been the custom heretofore. 1t is under
and the Omaha, the only other Western roads is
suing weekly statements, will adopt the system
of monthly reports
AS evidence that Frank Wade, district passen
ger agent. and his assistants at this point,
did good work for the Wabash in the
year 1886, note the fact that notwith-
standing the statements that ii an off year
in passenger business, the receipts from sale of
tickets at the Indianapolis outside Office exceeded
those of 1885 1920
The average paw of passenger conductors on
the G., II. q d. system last year was 1927 per
month Men on this road are paid by the trip
and often make better wages than the sum
above named. {. G. Waite, general manager of
the O., H. ~ ID. system, has always favored pay
Ing good wages, taking the grounds that only by
SO doing can the service Of frst-class railroad
be secured.
The railroad men report that there will be
more railroads built this year than in any of the
preceding FIVE, if leave the Mexican lines
which have not yet benefited us, out Of the ac-
count And more railroads mean larger dis
trloutlon OF money, greater purchasing power
among the working classes engaged in various
branches of industry upon which the construc-
tion of railroads depend. and larger city and
country trade, the two being interdependent on
each other.
In the year 1856 the official statement of Car
Accountant Sipp, of the c., l., St L. & c. road
Shows that cars of l73 foreign and fastfreieht
lines were handled on this road. 1t is question
pble il there is another road in this country on
which so large number of of other roads
ana lines were handled 1t exceeds that of any
former year on the Big Four road, which seems
20 be so located as to reach more roads through
its various connections than does any other road
IN this country.
Perry Griffin, district passenger agent of the
Shicngo Rock Island, is in the city on official
business. lie states that the impression pre-
walls IN passenger circles that f. c. Donald, city
ticket and passenger agent of the Chicago & At
lant". nj Chicago, will be appointed general pas
eeneet agent of the road, vice Mr.. Snow who
goes 10 the Wabash. Mr.. Donald is a bright
qCtINe pSaseheeF man, anu, III he can get along
with the eene.cl manager, will make a capital
general passen geragent
The very elect seem to know as little about
the future of the INDIANAPOLIS Peru q Chicago
road as do the newspaper mer. None of their
statements TINS far have proved correct Posi-
ply after w. p. Fshback. master of Chaucery,
bas visited New York and turned the properly
ever TO the purchasers, which he will likely do
pext week, something of the intentions of the
purchasers regarding the property will be made
known. As IL now stands, officials and employees
are in quanadary, and don't know whether
20 be hunting up other jobs or not
joseph Downey the contractor who is TO build
the Union Depot, spent yesterday in the CITY.
de brought down from Chicago L. l.. Leach
yzkl1n L. tn he ri